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Been testing some trains lately over my MEC Mountain Division, trying to get a some what accurate tonnage rating for the "modern day" operation. I think I got it a little close. GP38/40's will have a 700 tonnage rating per unit, from Bartlett to Crawfords. That is an average of 50 cars, with six units, so that's not bad at all for the operation over the heavy grade.

A long way from home, Western Maine Rail Company is testing a set of SD70AH's on the Mountain Division. Today's RY-2 train has a consist of an SD70AH, SD30ECO, SD30ECO, SD70AH combo, pulling just over 3,000 trailing tons. (15 loads, 35 empties). So far the crews are giving the okay. A set of four SD70M-2's are currently in order, and being painted. Just waiting for the management to give the okay on these units being able to go onto customer sidings, until then, the "local" work will be handled by the switch job of RZ-2/ZO-2 and OZ-1/ZR-1, using GP38's (straights, -2's and -3's) and GP20ECO's.